(Quebec) Although the TVA logo has been removed from all vehicles, at least seven network cars belonging to the Quebecor Media subsidiary were vandalized overnight from Monday to Tuesday, reported the Canadian Union of Public Employees , the largest union affiliated with the FTQ.
Posted at 6:09 p.m.
Since this is a plaintiff in a mischief case, the Quebec City Police Service (SPVQ) did not confirm that the cars belonged to TVA. He said the police were called to a business on Wilfrid-Hamel Boulevard around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday for mischief to vehicles.
The car windows were smashed, according to the FTQ. The SPVQ did not confirm the condition of the cars other than vandalism was committed on the vehicles. A criminal wrongdoing investigation is ongoing.
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“Since the start of the pandemic, the verbal and sometimes physical violence suffered by employees has been staggering. Journalists, cameramen and technicians who find themselves in the field regularly complain of harassment. It has to stop, ”denounced in a press release the provincial president of the union of TVA employees, Carl Beaudoin.
TVA logos were removed from cars during the pandemic, as they were “targets of too many threats”. Media employees now travel in all-white vehicles.
CUPE’s union representative and communications sector coordinator, Steve Bargone, believes that these actions have an impact on democracy. He indicates that workers associated with newsrooms fear for their safety and points out that in “most autocratic countries, the media is silent out of fear”.